Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026apparently medium is where everyone posts transcripts of their claude conversations these days 060
Reposted by Andrei ShikovJaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Excited to announce Compose HotSwan 2.0.0! 🚀 The future of Compose Hot Reload for Android, iOS, and Desktop. v2 introduces an interpreter engine, allows you to update entire screens in a blink real time, and drives a much faster AI agent feedback loop. hotswan.dev/blog/compose... 0155
Reposted by Andrei ShikovArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 09/09/2026Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day engineering. At least until I have adjusted. Some random thoughts including code samples of what I recovered from my traces. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/ast...lucumr.pocoo.orgAstra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models. 1511920
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026one common feature of every llm app that I tried is a random animation that consumes 100% of CPU and puts my 2019 intel mac on its knees coding is solved they said 150
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026if you are using Compose sizes or offsets as hashmap keys, consider a custom wrapper that does normal 31 * x + y kinda thing The hash for these is borked and is basically x ^ y, which is the same for a variety of pairs 260
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026turns out, sometimes it is a bad idea to pack ints into longs because jvm implemented Long hash as `v ^ (v >> 32)` 020
Reposted by Andrei ShikovRomain Guy @romainguy.dev · 29/07/2026We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...youtu.beThe inside story of Jetpack ComposeYouTube video by Android Developers 1408
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026you are waiting for fable, I am finally playing fable 2, we are not the same 070
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026even with all the wrong assumptions that llms make these days, the bug reports we are getting for /weird/ bugs are way better in quality it is still slop and the conclusions are mostly incorrect, sure, but i can at least start from a better place than when people would just copy paste an exception 000
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026the worst thing about talking to LLMs is that I started using "absolute" terms to make them actually do the job somehow their "good enough" is mine "barely passable" 110
Reposted by Andrei Shikovamos @fasterthanli.me · 30/05/2026very cool article re: rendering diffs pierre.computer/writing/on-r...pierre.computerOn Rendering DiffsA technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering. 1956
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026my favourite thing is when I try and prototype something just to realize I already did it couple of years ago 120
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I am around @kotlinconf.com this year too (just hanging out) Find me at the Google booth! Or next to the Jetbrains booth! Or next to the coffee pot! Or at the afterparty! 1110
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026somehow I don't feel very different about reviewing AI slop it was always part of my job to review random apps code for performance issues... and llms are fairly consistent with how people actually write code 110
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026fun fact, themes and design systems are consistently the most expensive thing in Compose, especially for startups for some reason, everybody LOVES storing every value in hashmaps 1100
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026my lukewarm take about coding llms is that we are too focused on oneshotting tasks for higher benchmark numbers that gets us into situations where the model is doing extremely stupid shit just because it is stuck 120
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026For years I've been told that I can shove 16 bits of data into a 64-bit pointer. Today I tried it out, just to realize that both macOS and Android use those bits for safety cookies 🫥 000
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026github is such a joke, apparently if PR hits a certain file limit, it just pretends the files are not there 071
Reposted by Andrei ShikovLaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Full Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbg...youtube.comYour RAM freezes 128,000 times per second (I fixed it)YouTube video by LaurieWired 3828
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026i dreamt about a realistic mafia game where i am awake at night to witness everything but wake up too late to influence any decisions 020
Reposted by Andrei ShikovSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/04/2026This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out 920626
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026my favourite part about LLM adoption is that everyone is finally documenting their workflows 172
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster 15614
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026my favourite part of the exploratory projects is when I come up with an idea within minutes and then go on a multi-day bender to try everything else just to return to the original idea which was actually perfect the whole time 040
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026yes macOS notes app, I definitely wanted you to replace my ASCII single quotes with your fancy unicode that looks exactly fucking same 240
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026so they say css... is not... a programming... language? 🤔 010
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I introduced Factorio to a friend who is very particular about his sleep schedule, like always in bed before midnight we played for 12 hours straight until 8am yesterday.... just straight up crack, especially multiplayer / 10 3100
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026my god i am reading python code where everything is expressed in tuples, dicts and arrays and it took me 2 hours to realize that the function that accepts tuples can also work on dicts untyped languages were a mistake 2210
Reposted by Andrei ShikovRahul Ravikumar @rahulrav.com · 22/01/2026PSA: Starting Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 (or the latest stable version of R8): R8 will automatically optimize all Intrinsics.check* APIs in Kotlin automatically ! This should greatly help improve app performance (especially Compose given the large Kotlin library API surface). 4278
Reposted by Andrei ShikovHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Oh you have "depression" and "anxiety"? Funny way of saying you're fundamentally weak of spirit 2975659
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026ok I found my new favourite arm instruction - ubfx (sorry fjcvtzs) developer.arm.com/documentatio...developer.arm.comDocumentation – Arm Developer 000
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026i've spent hours trying to understand why my assembly contains frame pointers in all functions and why godbolt output doesn't turns out, rust compiler forces them /specifically/ for my arch (x86 mac) lol 130
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Here's the new page about the new stack traces in Compose, in case you were wondering how it all is supposed to work: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...developer.android.comStack traces in Compose | Jetpack Compose | Android Developers 1102
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025This release also adds support for Compose stack traces that work with minified apps! (requires R8 and Kotlin 2.3.0+) 1225
Reposted by Andrei ShikovAleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Finally a government project to unite the humanity. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 062
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025the pm who decided that tapping on full screen photos should go to the next one should get off tinder 120
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025being in japan is extremely weird because all of my fave streamers i used to watch before bed stream at 9am now 140
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025sometimes I read shit like this and it makes me sad that we struggle with rendering some rectangles with text smoothly blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g...blog.playstation.comGhost of Yōtei – tech deep diveSucker Punch delves into the tech that helped them bring Atsu’s engrossing journey to live. 270
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025i randomly watched a vid from .net team about new perf improvements I am extremely impressed considering I never used .net in my life 160
Reposted by Andrei ShikovBluquark @bluquark.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Not sure whether this is right, but Allan Blomquist's engine looks something along those lines? www.reddit.com/r/programmin...reddit.comFrom the programming community on Reddit: Tomorrow Corporation's time travelling debugger, including debugging other people's play sessions, hot asset reloading, live compilation on every keystroke an...Explore this post and more from the programming community 101
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025~3 years ago i saw a video on twitter with a demo of a custom game runtime with hot reload and time travel (both for game logic and memory values). From debugger, you could time travel to the stack state that modified the value last time. I can't find it anymore, maybe somebody knows what that was? 230
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025a sudden urge to run around a starting area of a mmorpg for a couple hours 110
Reposted by Andrei ShikovAurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 10/10/2025Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...google.comSenior Software Engineer, Jetpack Compose — Google Careers 01713
Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025tried to read the rules for const placement in C++ for 1000th time, ended up adding const after each symbol just in case 130
